Witham was polluted by sewage 534 times in 2024
lasting 5,342 hours

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Live data for Witham in 2025
So far this year (as of Apr 16, 2025, 6:00 PM) there has been 795 hours of sewage overflows
Totals for Witham in 2024
22 Sites polluted by Anglian Water
534 sewage dumps
5,342 h duration
That's 7.42 months. On average 1.5 times a day
Change Over Time
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Daily Data
We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Witham, here you can see overflows in red, the darker the red, the more the CSO overflowed that day.
Each CSO has a row, the most recent data is on the right hand side.
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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Witham in 2024. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Reporting refers to how much of the time the monitoring was active. In this constituency 0 of the total 23 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 0 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Anglian Water River Brain WHITE NOTLEY WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 81 1,178 99.5
Anglian Water Stisted Brook River Blackwater STISTED STW 63 1,056 99.5
Anglian Water Tollesbury Fleet To Blackwater TOLLESBURY WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 50 828 100
Anglian Water River Colne EARLS COLNE WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 38 648 100
Anglian Water River Colne HALSTEAD (LANGLEY) WRC 57 478 86.4
Anglian Water Virley Brook Salcottcreek TIPTREE WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 26 231 99.9
Anglian Water . EAST ST COGGESHALL 21 189 92.8
Anglian Water Layer Brook TOLLESHUNT KNIGHTS FORGE PS 23 185 100
Anglian Water Penny'S Brook River Blackwater SCHOOL ROAD PS 17 182 100
Anglian Water Roman River LAYER DE-LA-HAYE STW 12 129 100
Anglian Water Roman River COPFORD WATER RECYCLING CCENTRE 18 73 97.5
Anglian Water River Blackwater OUTLET AT GREY'S MILL 18 41 99.4
Anglian Water Tidal River Chelmer WITHAM STW 9 32 100
Anglian Water Layer Brook GORSE LANE TERMINAL PUMPING STATION 7 25 100
Anglian Water Bowstead Brook River Blackwate TOLLESHUNT D'ARCY STW 14 24 99.4
Anglian Water River Colne EARLS COLNE CHURCH HILL #3 CSO 39 11 100
Anglian Water River Blackwater COGGESHALL WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 6 8 100
Anglian Water River Ter HATFIELD PEVEREL CRABBS HILL PS 9 7 99.9
Anglian Water . STATION RD KELVEDON 15 6 84.65
Anglian Water River Blackwater COGGESHALL EAST STREET RO 18 CSO 1 3 100
Anglian Water River Colne EARLS COLNE ST ANDREWS CHURCH CSO 8 2 100
Anglian Water River Colne EARLS COLNE 2 0 100
Anglian Water Spicketts Brook Blackwater GREAT TOTHAM STW 0 0 100

Data Sources & Accuracy

EDM (Event Duration Monitoring) data and Consented Discharges to Controlled Waters with Conditions from Environment Agency & Data Map Wales, and Scottish Water

Experimental derived data from Thames Water API, Some data may be missing or inaccurate. This uses Environment Agency rainfall data from the real-time data API (Beta) - Rainfall data is delayed by up to two days.

This website is intended to provide an accurate representation of the Environment Agency data. The data is hard to use, and thus some errors may have been made. If you find something that is incorrect, please raise an issue at the GitHub issues page and we'll endeavour to fix it quickly.

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